The author, twice, describes her reading the New York Times, implying that while she may falter somewhat speaking English, she is highly literate and wants to be an informed woman. Laura Garcia is not only a wife and mother she is a role model for her daughters, a curious, imaginative woman who clearly has a passion for life manifested in her zeal to invent something. This story is a study of how a mother has the added challenge of not only being a wife and mother but also serving as the cultural interpreter for her four daughters and husband as they make the transition from living in the Dominican Republic to the United States. While the single mother, who does remarry in Tillie Olsen’s story, finds herself faced with choices relative to those circumstances, the mother in the next story, “Daughter of Invention,” has a very different set of circumstances and choices.
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